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Events scheduled for the prop school meet include the 100, 220, 440, 880, mile, low and high hurdles, high jump, pole vault, and discus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Practice Slowed | 4/6/1945 | See Source »

...story of its development is the story of small operators with shoestring capital and striking originality. A typical example is Mabs of Hollywood. Mabs Barnes, 35, a flaming redhead, ex-discus thrower and ballet dancer, was disgusted with the girdles and panty girdles on the market when she was a Hollywood movie dancer in 1933. She made a girdle herself, found that other dancers wanted similar girdles, so she quit dancing and started a actory. Now Mabs sells girdles, bathing suits and sports clothes in 800 stores in the U.S. Californians are sure that they have many more like Mabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Made in California | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Harvard's chances of placing higher were hindered by the lack of hurdlers, pole vaulters, discus throwers, and shot putters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Tracksters Capture Third Place In Boston Meet | 5/9/1944 | See Source »

...thermometer hovered around 100°. Ensign Hugh S. Cannon, U.S.N.R. (Brigham Young University '36), said he felt hot. He stepped into a circle, heaved a discus clear across the lawn. He picked it up and heaved it again & again. Before he stopped heaving, he had broken the official world's record for the discus throw with a fling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cannon's Shot | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...Discus--Won by Fisher (H); second, Herron (A); third, McKee (H). Distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACKMEN DEFEAT ANDOVER, 70 TO 56 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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